How to Use conventional wisdom in a Sentence

conventional wisdom

noun
  • Conventional wisdom in Hollywood says that a movie can't succeed unless it stars a famous actor or actress.
  • At first, the conventional wisdom was that that would hurt us.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • The conventional wisdom would be to close down, take your lumps, wait it out, and hope for the best.
    — Steve Strauss, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2021
  • After all, that’s the conventional wisdom that many of us grew up with.
    — Mckale Montgomery, The Conversation, 19 May 2022
  • Still, the conventional wisdom is that Democrats will get both bills in the end.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
  • That flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which suggests that prices should slide as rates rise.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 13 July 2024
  • The 30-year run for that bit of conventional wisdom has, at least for now, come to an end.
    — John Myers, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But much of the conventional wisdom is not based on evidence, and some is flat-out wrong.
    — John Gottman, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2018
  • But much of the conventional wisdom is not based on evidence, and some is flat-out wrong.
    — John Gottman and Christopher Dollard, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
  • The conventional wisdom is that they were drawn here by the sunlight and mild weather.
    — Nancie Clare, Los Angeles Magazine, 20 Feb. 2018
  • That’s a genuine flaw in much of the conventional wisdom.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2026
  • For months, the mayor and the chief have coasted on this conventional wisdom and no plan.
    — Jeremiah Ellison, Star Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
  • There are a few bits of conventional wisdom that suggest Democrats have a long road ahead.
    — Christine Mai-Duc, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • For months, the conventional wisdom was that the next man up the food chain was Manafort.
    — Abigail Tracy, The Hive, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The conventional wisdom is that the candidate who can spend the most on it will most likely win.
    — Liberty Vittert, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2019
  • And right now the conventional wisdom seems to be that the country has taken a rightward tilt.
    — Josef Adalian, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The big wins go to those who challenge conventional wisdom and mock the status quo rather than succumb to it.
    — Josh Linkner, Detroit Free Press, 21 Apr. 2018
  • But is that conventional wisdom true?
    — Regina G. Barber, NPR, 20 Feb. 2026
  • All the old conventional wisdom gets tossed out this week, thanks to Frank, who is clearly up to some kind of no good.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2025
  • The conventional wisdom is the union won’t succeed, so most experts are looking to see how close the vote will be.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Some of the new evidence challenges the conventional wisdom that had formed around the killing.
    — Jill Cowan, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Perhaps, as the conventional wisdom goes, the princesses split the vote.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2018
  • On one hand, tip your hat to a team that has the courage to eschew conventional wisdom and pick kids way ahead of where they were slated to go.
    — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 29 June 2023
  • Sell was the conventional wisdom in April, and buy was all the rage during their red-hot May.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 30 June 2021
  • If true, this fact could shatter much of the conventional wisdom about AI.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Lukas Reichel has played on the fourth line and, contrary to conventional wisdom, thrived in that role.
    — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The conventional wisdom for what to do if you're caught in a rip current is to swim parallel to shore to try and escape it.
    — Cara Korte, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • The Broncos might be able to sign both long-term, but conventional wisdom is that Allen is first in line.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 14 July 2025
  • But the conventional wisdom that now governs book publishing—that things are, for the first time in a long time, not that bad—is wrong.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 Jan. 2020
  • One of the first clues that the conventional wisdom about willpower was wrong came in 2015.
    — Francine Russo, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2026

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